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I don’t have access to that memo — it sounds like an internal Anthropic document that has either leaked or been reported on, and I wouldn’t have a free copy regardless. Let me search for what’s been reported about it.

The full memo isn’t publicly available in its entirety — it originated with The Information (paywalled). However, the key substance has been widely reported. Here’s what we know:
The core dispute: Anthropic and the Pentagon were close to a $200m deal but broke down over five words — a prohibition on “analysis of bulk acquired data.” Amodei says that phrase was the single contractual line that matched Anthropic’s core concern: an AI system trained on aggregated American communications data for domestic surveillance at scale. Anthropic held firm; the Pentagon labelled them a supply chain risk and signed with OpenAI instead.
What Amodei wrote: He accused OpenAI of caring about “placating employees” rather than preventing abuses, called their public messaging “straight up lies,” and said Altman was falsely presenting himself as a peacemaker. He also attributed the administration’s hostility to political donations — noting OpenAI’s Greg Brockman gave $25m to a Trump super PAC and Altman donated $1m to the inauguration, while Anthropic had given nothing.
The complication: Separately, it emerged that Anthropic participated in a $100m Pentagon prize challenge to develop voice-controlled autonomous drone swarming technology — somewhat undermining the moral high ground of the memo.
Where it stands now: Amodei has reportedly reopened talks with the Pentagon’s under-secretary for research and engineering, even as a White House official publicly questioned whether Claude could be trusted in classified settings.
This is worth watching closely — it sits directly at the intersection of the Anthropic-Palantir thread flagged in your briefing setup, and it’s now a live political-commercial conflict with genuine AI governance stakes.